Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of SmillingHillFarms is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dat big guy over there with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed population of 1.135 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 39%, but much higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, and eminent domain has been abolished. Crime is totally unknown. SmillingHillFarms's national animal is the Tapir, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Cap.

SmillingHillFarms is ranked 2,086th in Balder and 96,355th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 12 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and